£1.8M Wellcome Funding to unlock links between mental health, climate change and women's biology.

I’m excited to announce that our lab is a co-lead partner in a newly awarded £1.8 million grant from Wellcome Trust, along with Amanda Sferruzzi‑Perri at University of Cambridge, to study how extreme heat exposure in pregnancy affects maternal and offspring mental health.

You can read more about the project here: https://www.zero.cam.ac.uk/node/616

This interdisciplinary grant brings together climate science, developmental neuroscience, women's health and mental-health research. The aim is to understand how extreme heat impacts placental physiology, and in turn mental health risk in mothers and their offspring. As the planet warms at an alarming rate

, this research is essential to develop heat stress mitigations in parts of the world disproportionately effected by climate change.

I’m proud to help steer it as project co-lead, and look forward to expanding the lab with some new posts to support this exciting research soon.